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best new albums and EPs

Kate Boy – One

Sundara Karma – EP II

The Japanese House – Clean

Talib Kweli + 9th Wonder – Indie 500

Floating Points – Elaenia

Courtney Barnett – Live at Electric Lady Studios

Pell – LIMBO

Ellie Goulding – Delirium

Panama Wedding – Into Focus EP

ASTR – Homecoming

Big Data + RAC – Fair Trade

Kurt Vile – Spotify Sessions

Grimes – Art Angels

Bill Ryder-Jones – West Kirby County Primary

Made of Oak – Penumbra

The Foxymorons – Fake Yoga

Julia Kent – Asperities

Library Voices – Lovish

The Leaf Library – Daylight Versions

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best new songs and remixes

Banks – Better

Diiv – Bent (Roi's Song)

BØRNS + Petite Meller – Sunday Morning

Dr. Dog – Badvertise

On An On – Drifting Remix EP

SOPHIE – L.O.V.E.

Arca – Vanity

Sia – Bird Set Free

Santigold – Can't Get Enough Of Myself (feat. B.C)

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Miike Snow, the Swedish trio that everyone you know insists on referring to as “he/him,” is back with their first new song in three years, Heart Is Full, and it’s a more mainstream pop sound than the group has ever embraced before. Not that that’s a good thing... A nasally, auto-tuned Andrew Wyatt, start-stopping soul vocal samples, and a flat and hookless chorus all add up to a song that feels like a rejected collaboration between Alicia Keys and Peter, Bjorn, and John.

New and notable releases this week from: Charli XCX with SOPHIE, Snakehips with Chance the Rapper and Tinashe, Junior Boys, Oneotrix Point Never, Niki & the Dove, Ty Segall trio Fuzz, Mogawi, Ellie Goulding, Beat Connection, St. Lucia, Pure Bathing Culture, Half Moon Run, Nao, Big Black Delta with Debbie Gibson (?), Kevin Garrett, Panama Wedding, Du Tonc, Kirin J Callinan, and more. 

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best new albums + EPs

Fuzz – II

Album no. 2 from the Ty Segall-front trio with a penchant for Sabbath riffs is, as the name implied, packed with dense-sounding guitar fuzz.

Beat Connection – Product 3

Mogwai – CENTRAL BELTERS

Pure Bathing Culture – Pray For Rain

Chic Gamine – Light A Match

Jonathan Bree – A Little Night Music

Hierophants – Parallax Error

Half Moon Run – Sun Leads Me On

Columbia Nights – In All Things

TĀLĀ – MALIKA - EP

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best new singles + remixes

Snakehips feat. Tinashe + Chance the Rapper – All My Friends

Charli XCX + SOPHIE – Vroom Vroom 

Charli XCX teams up with SOPHIE as she takes a turn from punk-pop into PC Music on the first taste of her upcoming third album.

Junior Boys – Big Black Coat

The first taste of the Canadian indie-pop duo’s upcoming album of the same name, Big Black Coat is “the sound of fabric swishing” according to frontman Jeremy Greenspan.

Oneohtrix Point Never – Mutant Standard

The second single from the producer Daniel Lopatin’s upcoming LP Garden Of Delete is, as Stereogum puts it, “an astral exploration of several different galaxies of sound. It absolutely glimmers.”

Niki & The Dove – Play It on My Radio

Clean Cut Kid – Runaway

“There's something in their bright tones and layered vocals that manages to recall both Vampire Weekend and a stripped back Arcade Fire.” –Noisey

Nao – Bad Blood

Kevin Garrett – Refuse

St. Lucia – Dancing On Glass

Panama Wedding – Infinite High

Big Black Delta feat. Debbie Gibson – RCVR

Kirin J Callinan – The Teacher

The first single from the wonderfully weird Aussie’s upcoming album, due out in 2016.

Du Tonc – We Can Hold On

Ellie Goulding – Lost And Found

Pell – Almighty Dollar

Purity Ring – begin again (HEALTH Remix)

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There’s more music to listen to than time to take it all in this week, with notable and must-hear new releases, including: 

Chairlift’s upgrade from safe synth-pop to a Beyoncé-esque banger

top-shelf dance-pop imports from Annie and Christine and the Queens 

BØRNS channels Jeff Buckley and CHVRCHES on his anticipated debut LP

MØ gives a first peek at her upcoming second album (and the first thing we’ve heard from her since the massive success of her “Lean On” collaboration with Major Lazer and DJ Snake, whose new track features Bipolar Sunshine

album of the year contenders from Neon Indian and Deerhunter

the return of Dan Croll, who takes a surprising turn into Tame Impala territory 

On an On get the RAC remix treatment

plus new stuff from the parentheses-requiring quirky dance-punks !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Raury, SOPHIE, Beach House, Jack Garratt, Goldroom, Keep Shelly in Athens, Wave Racer, YACHT, Small Black, Here We Go Magic, and (somehow) even more

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this week’s best new singles + remixes

Chairlift – Ch-Ching

Rather than being permanently typecast as the typical palatable but uninspired lot that make up the “We had a song in an iPod commercial” club, Chairlift shakes their beige past with a borderline banger that marries hip-hop swagger with sexy synth-pop sensibilities like a hybrid of Phantogram and Beyoncé. The result is their boldest song to date and a tantalizing taste of their third LP, Moth, due in January. 

SOPHIE – JUST LIKE WE NEVER SAID GOODBYE

Jack Garratt – Breathe Life

Dan Croll – One of Us

The young British singer-songerwriter with a Midas touch for cheery indie earworms returns with the first taste of album no. 2, which he says has been influenced by the likes of Tame Impala, Queen, Black Sabbath, and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. I was a sucker for Croll’s full-length debut, From Nowhere, and was equally enamored with his live show, so the hint of more new music and touring in the not-so-distant future is good news indeed.

On An On – Drifting (RAC Mix)

The Neighbourhood – Prey

MØ – Kamikaze

From her first appearance in the states back at SXSW 2013 to her energetic early morning Austin City Limits Music Festival 2014 set, I’ve always been willing to go all in on the bet that MØ would break huge. After the stupidly massive hit “Lean On” with Major Lazer (the song has nearly half a billion plays on Spotify — those are goddamn Ed Sheeran numbers) I think it’s safe to say the Danish singer has broken throughl. Her latest single, the first from her upcoming second album, is another collaboration with Diplo. While it may not have the legs of “Leon On” it shows there are plenty of electro-pop gems left to mine from the mind of MØ.

Goldroom + Ren Farren – Waiting To Ignite

GEMS – w/o u

DJ Snake + Bipolar Sunshine – Middle

Tei Shi – Go Slow (Luka Remix)

Bob Moses – Talk (Midas Rework)

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this week’s best new albums + EPs

Neon Indian – VEGA Intl. Night School

Alan Palomo’s latest album with Neon Indian seems to take its name from his (seemingly abandoned) solo dance project VEGA. VEGA Intl. Night School is a chillwave late night soundtrack of wooly, warm analog synths and tropical disco beats — bending the druggy sound of Neon Indian toward the more straight-forward dance of VEGA. The album’s 14 songs were recorded in locations ranging from a cruise ship to DFA’s studio in NYC.

Deerhunter – Fading Frontier

Recorded in the wake of a car accident that left the band’s frontman Bradford Cox (aka Atlas Sound) hospitalized, Fading Frontier is the latest full-length from the Atlanta psych act with a nearly impeccable track record of... records. This go ‘round, Cox shares vocals with bandmate Lockett Pundt, and Broadcast's James Cargill and Stereolab's Tim Gane make appearances.

Beach House – Thank Your Lucky Stars

A slathering of nine new tracks hot on the heels of their most recent release, the two-month-old Depression Cherry.

Raury – All We Need

Hip-hop meets folk on the debut full-length from the eclectic and electric Atlantan whose flow draws comparisons to André 3000′s.

!!! (Chk Chk Chk) – As If

Album no. 6 from the veteran dance-punks — who often sound like bizarro brothers of The Rapture or a funkier Friendly Fires — is a set of songs culled from 40 penned while holed up in a New York apartment. “Everyone wants us to be punk; everyone wants us to be raw,” Nic Offer told Spin. “Well, we want to make dance music. The kind of dance music that sounds raw is that early-’90s house records.”

Annie – Endless Vacation

(RIYL: Robyn, La Roux, Yelle) The acclaimed Norwegian queen of guilt-free pop returns with an EP of ’90s-facing summery synth stunners — a solid four-track run from the subdued opener “Cara Mia” to the sweaty dance-floor tantrum of closer “WorkX2.” Stereogum calls it “one of the year’s best pop releases.”

Christine and the Queens – Christine And The Queens

The indie-pop star is a big deal in her native France, counting as fans Madonna and Mark Ronson. Her full-length 2014 debut, Chaleur Humaine, has been translated and tweaked for its stateside release and features Perfume Genius. Domination will follow. She is currently on tour in the U.S. opening for Marina and the Diamonds.

YACHT – I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler

Here We Go Magic – Be Small

Small Black – Best Blues

Son Little – Son Little

Wave Racer – Flash Drive

Keep Shelly in Athens – Now I’m Ready

Wax Idols – American Tragic

Gun Outfit – Dream All Over

Kwabs – Walk EP

BØRNS – Dopamine

The debut LP from the Taylor Swift–approved, impossible-to-hate LA singer. “Let dapper Michigan native Garrett Borns whip your synapses back into working order [with] sun-bleached synth-pop... that sounds like Jeff Buckley singing ‘99 Luftballoons.’ BØRNS' voice is something to behold, elastic and powdery and sweet... Plus, that hair. Somewhere in an Irish dive bar, CHVRCHES are quivering into their apple juice.” –VICE

Swim Deep – Mothers

Dan Friel – Life

Luke Haines – British Nuclear Bunkers

Olga Bell – Incitation EP

“Instead of rushing to keep in time with skittery, double-time drum machines, Bell aims for the austere... embracing the melismatic melodies and damaged electronic architecture favored by Björk and so many after her. The richly textured drum sampling is the most modern element, indebted to artists like FKA twigs who have drawn threads from R&B toward IDM and other realms of the avant-garde.” –Pitchfork

Evil Blizzard – Everybody Come to Church

Amason – Flygplatsen

Majical Cloudz – Are You Alone?

The Mantles – All Odds End

Chris Walla – Tape Loops

“Chris Walla says plenty by saying nothing on Tape Loops. His second solo record and first since a public departure from Death Cab for Cutie, his latest release offers an ambient, instrumental collection of manipulated analog tape.” Consequence of Sound

Maritime – Magnetic Bodies/Maps of Bones

Zombi – Shape Shift

Rival Consoles – Howl

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NEW AND NOTABLE MUSIC FROM THE PAST WEEK includes the triumphant return of MNDR, a Glass Animals and Joey Bada$$ collaboration, new songs from Bloc Party, METZ, Ellie Goulding, Raury, French Horn Rebellion, Beat Connection, and one-to-watch Kiiara; plus albums from hyped acts Kelela, Alex G, and Dilly Dally; alongside new ones from Saintseneca, IYES, RDGLDGRN, Oberhofer, Boy & Bear, and Conner Youngblood.

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singles

MNDR – Kimono

After some time behind the scenes writing/producing for the likes of Charli XCX, SOPHIE, Santigold, MS MR, Penguin Prison, and Kylie Minogue, MNDR is back with a taste of something new that harkens back to the seemingly simple but irresistible robo-pop of her debut EP.

METZ – Eraser Glass Animals + Joey Bada$$ – Lose Control Raury – Forbidden Knowledge Beat Connection – Rosealene Magical Cloudz – Downtown

Oyster Kids – Creepy Bloc Party – The Love Within Pell – Queso Blondfire – Pleasure Ellie Goulding – Something In The Way You Move French Horn Rebellion – Classical Baby Kiiara – Intention

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albums + EPs

Kelela – Hallucinogen

"Kelela obviously doesn’t shy away from wearing her label’s signifiers, but on Hallucinogen she transcends them, the same way she outlasted lazy classification into PBR&B in 2013, swimming to the hazy surface of a new kind of future sex/love sounds.” –SPIN

Alex G – Beach Music

"Impressive and haunting Domino label debut for the young, Philadelphia-based lo-fi artist with scores of self-released songs under his belt.” –All Music

Kisses – Rest In Paradise

"The disco revival may have peaked in 2013... but nobody told the L.A. duo Kisses... A smooth, funky record flaked in shards of disco balls and coated in glitter and perfume.” –All Music

Saintseneca – Such Things

"The Ohio band Saintseneca made a national name for itself with its moodily stellar 2014 album Dark Arc, on which it showcases an arsenal of unlikely instruments, from the bulbul to the bouzouki to the bowed banjo. Throughout Dark Arc, all those worldly (and alliterative!) sounds got channeled into rich, dark, lustrous songs — hooky, accessible things that felt exotic and familiar, diverse and consistent. The new Such Things follows suit, but with even brighter and more intoxicating results.” –NPR

Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect

Album No. 3 from the Detroit indie/post-punk rockers. DIY Magazine says, "It starts with a slow drip and builds to a raging flood. It’s irresistible and so eloquently convincing that despite their claims of failure, Protomartyr are unstoppable."

Kacy Hill – Bloo

A six-song EP from Kayne’s latest addition to G.O.O.D. Music

RDGLDGRN – Red Gold Green 2 EP

The colorful left-field hip-hop trio blend slick production with heavy hooks for a highly listenable EP.

Gypsy & The Cat – Hearts a Gun EP Oberhofer – Chronovision King Khan – Hurtin’ Class Conner Youngblood – The Generation of Lift Boy & Bear – Limit of Love

IYES – Part Two

(RIYL: CHURCHES, Arthur Beatrice) The latest in a series from the electronic male-female duo is a second helping of slow-simmered delicate dance tunes. 

Ryan Hemsworth + Lucas – Taking Flight John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure Co La – No No The Spook School – Try to Be Hopeful DILLY DALLY – Sore

Thundering debut packed with '90s-throwback noise from the hyped Canadian rockers.

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One to watch: Kiiara

NEW + NOTABLE RELEASES THIS WEEK from: Eagles of Death Metal, Chad Valley, Deafheaven, Run The Jewels, Autre Ne Veut, ON AN ON, Born Ruffians, Wild Child, Wavves, Nicholas Jaar, SOPHIE, Ms. John Soda, and more.

ALBUMS + EPS

Chad Valley – Entirely New Blue

A glassy polished LP of super-slick synth-pop from the UK singer/producer/frontman of Jonquil Hugo Manuel (aka Chad Valley).

Eagles Of Death Metal – Zipper Down

Sexy, silly, butt-shaking blues ‘n’ boogie from the hard rockin’ duo of Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) and Jesse Hughes; their first album in seven years.

Deafheaven – New Bermuda

If you’re a shoegaze death metal band who someone ends up creating the most critically acclaimed album of 2013, what’s next? Deafheaven guitarist Kerry McCoy says, “I was definitely trying to distance myself from the whole shoegaze thing and go more towards alternative rock... there's the Oasis homage... and some of the songs have more of a slow-core vibe — like, my take on Low or Red House Painters. There's even like a Wilco slide guitar-y thing on 'Come Back.'”

Ms. John Soda – Loom

“Ms. John Soda is the German two-piece of Stephanie Böhm and Micha Acher (of The Notwist), and they’re back after an eight-year hiatus... Be warned — this is as sweetly acoustic-electronic twee as it gets.” –Stereogum

Autre Ne Veut – Age of Transparency

“Like How to Dress Well’s What Is This Heart?, Age of Transparency sidles away from the trappings of R&B and neo-soul into big, unabashed pop... like a late ’90s chart-topper run through a blender and garnished with a few moments of upright bass and buzzed-out electric guitar.” Consequence of Sound

Dirty Ghosts – Let It Pretend Wild Child – Fools Born Ruffians – RUFF The Dears – Times Infinity Volume One

The Dears' first record, 2000's End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story, helped signal a seismic shift in Canadian music: the rise of the indies. They also helped usher in a new era in Montreal's music scene, because before Metric, Stars, and Arcade Fire, there were the Dears.” –Exclaim.ca

Blitzen Trapper – All Across This Land Editors – In Dream Kate Boy – The Remix EP Dungen – Allas Sak

Wavves – V Electric Six – Bitch, Don't Let Me Die! Express Rising – Fixed Rope Promised Land Sound – For Use and Delight

Childbirth – Women's Rights

“It's impossible to talk about the new album from Seattle punk trio Childbirth without discussing Women's Rights. In the literal sense, it is the name of the band's sophomore release; and symbolically, every aspect of every song here is tied up in young women staking a claim and taking what's theirs. For Julia Shapiro (Chastity Belt), Bree McKenna (Tacocat) and Stacy Peck (Pony Time), women's rights are motif, connective tissue, Northern Star, a wound that won't heal, and, above all, material for some bitingly funny jokes. This combination makes for a pretty irresistible punk album.” –NPR

Girls Names – Arms Around a Vision Helvetia – Dromomania Alpaca Sports – When You Need Me The Most The New Mastersounds – Made for Pleasure

Old-school-sounding (mostly) instrumental R&B/soul recorded in New Orleans by the UK groovesters.

Darkstar – Foam Island Larry Gus – I Need New Eyes The Butterscotch Cathedral – The Butterscotch Cathedral

“Trippy, hooky, and fun neo-psych concept album from Matt Rendon, best known as the leader of the Resonars.” –All Music

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SINGLES

Nicholas Jaar – Nymphs IV (A Fight) SOPHIE – MSMSMSM KStewart – Ain't Nobody (Produced by TCTS & Karma Kid) On An On – It's Not Over Erykah Badu – HOTLINE BLING BUT U CAINT USE MY PHONE MIX VÉRITÉ – Sober Saintseneca – Bad Ideas Misty Miller – Next to You Mapei – Million Ways to Live Oberhofer – Someone Take Me Home Run the Jewels – Rubble Kings Theme (Dynamite)

Single No. 18 of 19 from this year’s Adult Swim Single Series is ripped from the soundtrack to the Shan Nicholson doc “Rubble Kings.” You can snag it for free — along with other entries from the series from Slayer, Sia, Peaches, Owen Pallett, Danny Brown + Clams Casino, DOOMSTARKS (DOOM + Ghostface Killah) — over at Adult Swim’s site.

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Summer’s over, so let’s get back to new music. To kick things off, here’s a look back at 11 (in no particular order) of the better new releases from the past 30 days.

1. Bob Moses – Days Gone By 

Terrible name, great debut. The duo (neither of which are named Bob Moses) strikes a smoky late-night mix of house and indie rock on a debut packed with six-minute-and-up tracks somewhere on the sound spectrum between Darkside and Depeche Mode.

2. Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie 

“It’s hard to think of another guitar-based band conjuring fear this exhilarating and volume this rapturous.” –Pitchfork

3. !!! (Chk Chk Chk) – Ooo / Bam City + Sick Ass Moon / Freedom! ’15 + All U Writers / Gonna Guetta Stomp  

We’ve still got a couple weeks until their upcoming “As If,” (Oct. 16) but the singles thus far from the bizarro dance-punks are groovy-ass harbingers of fall-time funk to come.

4. Low – Ones and Sixes 

The Minnesota masters of slow-core have blazed their own trail for 20+ years with a unique droning pairing of beauty and dread — with minimal guitar and haunting, dark Emmylou Harris harmonies. Their 11th LP is one of their best in years, and as good a place as any for the uninitiated to jump in.

5. Battles – La Di Da Di

The third full-length from the prog-y New York math rockers. “As Battles evolve, they remain true to their unique mix of brains and brawn, and La Di Da Di just might be their most engaging music yet.” –All Music

6. Empress Of – Me

The dreamy synth-pop full-length debut from solo artist Lorely Rodriguez was self-produced and brings to mind such vocal gymnasts as Björk, Dirty Projectors, or FKA twigs. It’s a collection of brainy bangers, and a stronger contender for album of the year.

7. Run The Jewels – Meow The Jewels

One of the best album’s of 2014 gets the craziest remixes of all time as the “first ever cat remix album” at the hands of an insane roster of producers, including Geoff Barrow, Prince Paul, Dan the Automator, Zola Jesus, Just Blaze, Boots, and The Alchemist.

8. Peaches – Rub  

The long-standing underground queen of X-rated electro is back for album No. 6 with lyrics so dirty they’d make Azealia Banks blush.

9. Blackalicious – Imani Vol. 1

A ray of old-school sunshine from the Cali alt hip-hop heroes. "The tracks brim with sing-along choruses, strutting horns and bright melodies that evoke the heyday of Philly soul, the mystic optimism of Earth Wind & Fire and the ‘Car Wash’ soundtrack.” –Chicago Tribune

10. Kurt Vile – b'lieve i'm goin down…

A batch of hazy, lo-fi indie folk from the Philly singer-songwriter and one-time The War on Drugs member. 

11. Big Grams – Big Grams

The seven-song collaboration between pop duo Phantogram and Outkast’s Big Boi sounds... exactly like you’d imagine a collaboration between the two would sound, and features Run the Jewels and Skrillex.

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New and notable releases this Friday: A bevy of badass singles from Foals, Robyn, Kurt Vile, Alice Glass (former vocalist of Crystal Castles) Mac Demarco, Shura, Metric, Jr. Jr. (formerly Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.*); new albums from Ducktails (Real Estate’s Matt Mondanile), On and On, the wonderful and weird Earthly (recommended for early Animal Collective fans), and MS MR; an album of covers from Iron and Wine with Ben Bridwell; plus Spotify sessions from Courtney Barnett, Leon Bridges, Amason, and SOAK.

And since we’ve been Internet silent this month since New Music Tuesday became New Music Friday alongside today’s releases we’re mixing the rest of the best of the new tunes put out this month, including Tame Impala, Ratatat, Youth Lagoon, CHVRCHES, Years & Years, Little Boots, Wilco, Four Tet, and Ghostface Killah.  Happy listening.

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SINGLES

Shura – White Light | A clear contender for song of the sumer makes its way to Spotify. This one’s party playlist gold. Just add friends and this 7-minute ’80s-synth-and-disco dream-pop banger will do the rest.

Mac Demarco – No Other Heart

Jr. Jr. – Gone | The Detroit boys previously known as Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. drop the NASCAR driver from their moniker and give us the first taste of their upcoming LP, JR JR, which is set for a September 25 release. (*Yeah, I know the story behind name changes are typically who-gives-a-shit worthy, but this one is a pretty cool read.)

Foals – Mountain At My Gates

Kurt Vile – Pretty Pimpin

Here We Go Magic – Falling

Tourist – Holding On

White Sea – Stay Young, Get Stoned

Metric – Too Bad, So Sad

Alice Glass – Stillbirth

Health – MEN TODAY

CHVRCHES – Leave A Trace

The Magician – The Trick

Destroyer – Girl in a Sling

Youth Lagoon – The Knower

Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique – Set Me Free 

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ALBUMS + EPs

Ducktails – St. Catherine | Rob Schnapf, who has handled production for the likes of Elliott Smith, Beck, and FIDLAR) lends a hand on the latest from Real Estate’s Matt Mondanile — a sun-kissed chill companion to a summer afternoon.

On An On – And the Wave Has Two Sides

Tame Impala – Currents

Iron & Wine – Sing Into My Mouth

MS MR – How Does It Feel

Little Boots – Working Girl

Ratatat – Magnifique

Cyril Hahn – Begin

The Chemical Brothers – Born In The Echoes | The duo’s eight LP features St. Vincent, Beck, and Q-Tip.

Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons to Die II

Four Tet – Morning / Evening

Years & Years – Communion

Lane 8 – Rise

Field Music – Music For Drifters

Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free

Wilco – Star Wars

Earthly – Days | “The North Carolina noisemakers mix the psych noise of early Animal Collective and Black Dice with the audio collages of the Books, Matmos, and Prefuse 73. Their joyful album doesn't make you feel like a kid so much as it reminds you how great it can be to act like one.” –Pitchfork

EZTV – Calling Out

Gwenno – Y Dydd Olaf

Vinyl Williams – Into

Mocky – Key Change | “The Canadian producer and multi-instrumentalist turns in a lovingly arranged, jazz-inspired gem with his fifth LP.” –AllMusic

Strange Wilds – Subjective Concepts

Eleventh Dream Day – Works For Tomorrow

the bird and the bee – Recreational Love

Leon Bridges – Spotify Session

SOAK – Spotify Sessions

Amason – Spotify Sessions

Courtney Barnett – Spotify Sessions

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After 100 posts on New Music Tuesdays, TuesdayNewsday is no more. But only kind of...

As you may have heard, new music release Tuesdays are now officially a thing of the past. The new new music release day is Friday — thus the name change here and the lack of new releases today. The move brings the assortment of release days around the world in line for the first time. (Previously new music released on Monday in the U.K., Tuesday in the U.S., and Friday in Australia.)

NEW AND NOTABLE THIS WEEK: Class Actress releases another thumping single — the third (see: High On Love and More Than You) in less than a month — from her upcoming Movies EP;  new albums from harp-playing R&B badass Active Child, smooth synth rockers from down under Alpine, and fellow Aussie Ben Browning of Cut Copy; a chill summertime jam from Roosevelt; plus new music from Gardens & Villa, Robert DeLong, Skylar Spence, M.I.A., Little Boots, Dragonette, Vampire Weekend’s Baio, Beck, Yukon Blonde, Mates of States, Tobias Jesso Jr, and Raury.

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SINGLES + EPs

Class Actress – GFE

Gardens & Villa – Fixations

Dragonette – Let the Night Fall

Baio – Sister Of Pearl

Robert DeLong – Don't Wait Up

GENER8ION feat. M.I.A. —The New International Sound, Pt. 2

Health – STONEFIST

Skylar Spence – Can't You See

Beck – Dreams

Little Boots – No Pressure

Roosevelt – Hold on / Night Moves

Fucked Up – Year of the Hare

Kidnap Kid – Fall / Freedom

Tobias Jesso Jr. – True Love

Raury – Devil's Whisper

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ALBUMS

Active Child – Mercy

Alpine – Yuck

Yukon Blonde – On Blonde

Mates of State – You're Going To Make It

Ben Browning – Turns

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New must-listen-to tunes today from Nicolas Jaar, Shamir, and Hot Chip; plus new music from Spoon, Tanlines, Active Child, Goldroom, ASTR, and Ratatat; and a new Run the Jewels track (previously only available on their Record Store Day 12-inch from April) makes its Spotify debut. —–-

ALBUMS + EPs

Nicolas Jaar – Nymphs II | The electronic half of duo Darkside releases fresh solo material, a pair of stunning tracks clocking at over 7 minutes each.

Shamir – Ratchet | Singer-songwriter Shamir Bailey's debut "feels like a study in the best dance-pop of the past decade," says Pitchfork.

Hot Chip – Why Make Sense? | "On its sixth studio album, 'Why Make Sense?,' Hot Chip defies the programmed, gleaming, pumped-up artificiality of current dance music by featuring hand-played keyboards, guitars and drums from its touring musicians... Hot Chip has always glanced back knowingly at 1990s and 1980s dance music; now, it gets even more retro, stretching the timeline back to the 1970s." –New York Times

Tanlines – Highlights | "Never say that margarita-wave duo Tanlines don’t know how to roll out a beachball of a record... [but while their first LP] was a neon-colored grab bag of steamy floor anthems, each one pulsating with Afropop rhythms, steel drum bing-bongs, and a carefree, on-holiday air. ‘Highlights’ finds the former remix project paring down to less imaginative drum/guitar basics..." –SPIN

Joanna Gruesome – Peanut Butter

Goldroom – It's Like You Never Went Away

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SONGS

Run The Jewels – Bust No Moves (feat. Cuz)

Spoon – TV Set

ASTR – Activate Me

Ratatat – Intro

Active Child – Stranger

Gigamesh – The Music

PINS – Young Girls

Azekel – Mad About the Boy

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NEW MUSIC TODAY from: Ducktails, Tame Impala, Metric, Tanlines, Mac DeMarco, Sharon Van Etten, a new group featuring members of Menomena and The National, Ben Khan, The Tallest Man On Earth, The Helio Sequence, and more.

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SINGLES

Tame Impala – Eventually

Ducktails – Headbanging In The Mirror

Metric – The Shade

Tanlines – Pieces

Mac Demarco – The Way You'd Love Her

Moses Sumney – Seeds

Elliphant – Love Me Badder

Sharon Van Etten – Just Like Blood

Dawes – Right on Time

Desaparecidos – Backsell

Years & Years – Shine

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ALBUMS + EPs

Ben Khan – 1000 | The second EP from the Brit soul artist with a Jai Paul sound 

Nao – February 15

Kamasi Washington – The Epic | A sax man who helped compose Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” and Flying Lotus’ “You’re Dead” drops an epic three-hour jazz triple album featuring a 20-piece choir and 32-piece string section.

Pfarmers – Gunnera | Debut from group featuring Danny Seim of Menomena and The National's Bryan Devendorf

Blanck Mass – Dumb Flesh | Solo project for Fuck Buttons’ Benjamin John Power

The Tallest Man On Earth – Dark Bird Is Home | This is album no. 4 for the Swedish singer-songwriter

Surfer Blood – 1000 Palms

The Helio Sequence – The Helio Sequence

D'Angelo – Spotify Sessions

Urban Cone – Polaroid Memories

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NEW AND NOTABLE RELEASES THIS WEEK: METZ, Mikal Cronin, Django Django, Everything Everything, Penguin Prison, Best Coast, Palma Violets, Other Lives, Jacco Gardner, Tame Impala, Future Islands, Leon Bridges, Foxygen, Daughn Gibson, Mutual Benefit, Titus Andronicus, Little Boots, Mates of State, and more...

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ALBUMS

Metz – II

Django Django – Born Under Saturn

Penguin Prison – Lost in New York

Nosaj Thing – Fated

Best Coast – California Nights

Pale Honey – Pale Honey

Palma Violets – Danger in the Club

Other Lives – Rituals

Jacco Gardner – Hypnophobia

Mac McCaughan – Non-Believers

Mikal Cronin – MCIII

Torres – Sprinter

Hiatus Kaiyote – Choose Your Weapon

Van Hunt – The Fun Rises, The Fun Sets.

Death and Vanilla – To Where the Wild Things Are

The Orange Peels – Begin the Begone

Michael Rault – Living Daylight

A Grave With No Name – Feathers Wet, Under the Moon

Rose Windows – Rose Windows

Marshmallow Coast – Vangelis Rides Again

Twinsmith – Alligator Years

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SONGS

Tame Impala – Disciples

Alessia Cara – Here

Mutual Benefit – Not for Nothing

Future Islands – The Chase

Ryan Adams – I Do Not Feel Like Being Good

Leon Bridges – River

The Helio Sequence – Upward Mobility

Titus Andronicus – Dimed Out

Little Boots – Better in the Morning

Foxygen – 24 Hour Lover Man

Everything Everything – Regret

Daughn Gibson – It Wants Everything

Mates of State – Staring Contest

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NEW MUSIC: It's going to be a great year for fans of young psych bands embracing their dance-y side. See: Tame Impala's “Let It Happen” to Unknown Mortal Orchestra's killer “Multi-Love.” UMO gets even funkier on their latest single, "Can't Keep Checking My Phone." That plus new music from Girl Band, Alabama Shakes, Passion Pit, San Fermin, Built To Spill, Thee Oh Sees, Speedy Ortiz, Woods' member John Andrews & The Yawns, Phantogram, and more.

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ALBUMS

Girl Band – The Early Years | Girl Band was far and away my favorite act of SXSW 2015. The Early Years, the first stateside physical release for the Dublin four-piece, collects a handful of their raucous singles. It’s dance and noise coming together in an energetic blend of teeth-kicking-in rock that feels like the next big thing. The Line of Best Fit puts it pretty well: “It’s like Daft Punk playing at your house, then capturing, torturing and murdering everyone there.” Pitchfork notes, “Like the Girl Band name itself, the title of The Early Years is a silly joke—for one, the EP doesn’t even include the band’s earliest recordings and the period that it faux-nostalgically canonizes covers a mere 19-month span that ended just last summer. But the mercurial, combustible potential within suggests we may not be laughing at it for much longer.”

Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color

Passion Pit – Kindred

Built To Spill – Untethered Moon

Various Artists – The Alchemist & Oh No Present Welcome to Los Santos | This Grand Theft Auto 5–inspired mix features Killer Mike, Phantogram, Wavves, Little Dragon, Ariel Pink, Action Bronson, Danny Brown, and more.

Squarepusher – Damogen Furies

Speedy Ortiz – Foil Deer

Wire – Wire

Great Lake Swimmers – A Forest of Arms

San Fermin – Jackrabbit

Dinner – Three EPs, 2012-2014

Stealing Sheep – Not Real

John Andrews & The Yawns – Bit by the Fang

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SONGS

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Can't Keep Checking My Phone

Thee Oh Sees – The Ceiling + Withered Hand

Urban Cone – Weekends

Girlpool – Before The World Was Big

U.S. Girls – Damn That Valley

Wolf Alice – Bros

SOAK – Blud

Air Traffic Controller – People Watching

Findlay – Wolfback

HOLYCHILD – Money All Around

Wild Beasts – Woebegone Wanderers II

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NEW AND NOTABLE tunes today from: Ratatat, who are back with their first new song since 2010 — the appropriately Ratatat-y titled “Cream on Chrome”; soon-to-be-massive French synth-pop act Christine and the Queens, who makes her English EP debut with chill, danceable tunes for fans of Yelle or HAIM (check out the summer ’15 mix tape-bound “Tilted”); SXSW 2015 stand-out Jack Garratt, whose James Blake-esque indie R&B should be music to the ears of fans of SOHN or Chet Faker;  downtempo duo Zero 7, who drop another EP with the help of Zero 7 collaborator-alum José González; art-pop songstress Tei Shi; plus new stuff from Best Coast, Miami Horror, Villagers, Suuns, Joywave, Calexico and more. All links are to Spotify unless otherwise noted.

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SONGS

Ratatat – Cream on Chrome (via YouTube)

Best Coast – Feeling OK

Wilsen – Garden

Yukon Blonde – Saturday Night

Brand New — Mene (via YouTube)

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ALBUMS and EPs

Christine and the Queens – Saint Claude

Jack Garratt – Synesthesia

Zero 7 – EP3

Tei Shi – Verde

Miami Horror – All Possible Futures

Villagers – Darling Arithmetic

Joywave – How Do You Feel Now?

Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart  – Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart

Ava Luna – Infinite House

Calexico – Edge of the Sun

Citizens! – European Soul

Gallows – Desolation Sounds

Stranger Cat – In the Wilderness

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NEW AND NOTABLE MUSIC TODAY: For your spring-y Tuesday listening enjoyment check out new songs from METZ, Tame Impala, St. Vincent, MS MR, Active Child, Passion Pit, SBTRKT, MNDR with Killer Mike; plus albums from Toro y Moi, The Mountain Goats, East India Youth, Waxahatchee, Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, Lord Huron, Say Lou Lou, and more...

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SONGS

Active Child – Never Far Away | The world’s most bad-ass harp-playing R&B-singing ginger is back with the second sweet taste of upcoming LP, Mercy, due out in June.

Ben Browning (of Cut Copy) – Make It Easy

Cheers Elephant – Speak Think

Desaparecidos – City on the Hill

Great Lake Swimmers – The Great Bear

METZ – Spit on You

Mew – Witness

MNDR feat. Killer Mike – Lock & Load

MS MR – Painted

The National – Sunshine On My Back

Palma Violets – English Tongue

Passion Pit – Until We Can’t (Let’s Go)

Tame Impala – Cause I’m a Man | The second single, following the hypnotic Let It Happen, from Tame Impala’s upcoming third LP.

SBTRKT feat. Tev’n – Relics

SIVIK – High

St. Vincent – Teenage Talk

!!! – All U Writers

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ALBUMS

The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ | For his 15th Mountain Goats album (following an atypically long three-year break during which time he wrote a novel, Wolfe in White Van), John Darnielle has adopted a unifying (if unlikely) theme: most of the songs on Beat the Champ are about professional wrestling.

East India Youth – Culture of Volume

Toro Y Moi  – What For?

Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp

Doldrums – The Air Conditioned Nightmare | (RIYL: Grimes, Clinic, Beck) Sub-Pop debut for Canadian noise electronic weirdo.

Drenge – Undertow

Drug Cabin – Wiggle Room | This is album no. 2 from the duo of the former Ambulance LTD frontman and Pretty Girls Make Graves’ guitarist.

East Cameron Folkcore – Kingdom of Fear

GABI – Sympathy

Josh Rouse – The Embers of Time

Lapalux – Lustmore

Lord Huron – Strange Tales 

Matt & Kim – New Glow

Royal Thunder – Crooked Doors

Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow – Ex Machina OST | Portishead's Geoff Barrow and composer Ben Salisbury team up for this soundtrack.

Say Lou Lou – Lucid Dreaming

Shlohmo – Dark Red

Thomston – Backbone EP

Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too

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